Magento EE 1.14.1.0 Release Notes

Highlights

The following sections discuss highlights of the EE 1.14.1 release.

Visual Merchandiser (EE only)

Magento EE only. Organizing products on category pages is now dramatically faster and easier. Our new drag-and-drop visual merchandising tool lets you see precisely what a category page will look like to shoppers—and makes it easy to adjust product positions and to feature "hero" products at the top of a category.

Plus, access to critical information in the tool—like pricing and inventory levels—helps you make smarter merchandising choices. You can also save time by cloning categories, setting up rules to automatically assign products to categories, or by creating dynamic categories, such as "new products," "on sale," or "gifts over $100," based on product attributes.

Note: Visual Merchandiser is intended to be used only with EE 1.14.1. To add the Visual Merchandiser to earlier versions, contact On Tap. Magento does not support Visual Merchandiser in versions earlier than EE 1.14.1.

Configurable Swatches

Configurable swatches help you optimize the way products are presented on your site. New "swatch" capabilities make products more appealing—and boost conversion rates—by offering shoppers quick access to information, like available colors, fabrics, sizes, and more.

Clicking on a swatch automatically updates the product image so shoppers see exactly what a color or fabric looks like, giving them confidence to proceed with their purchase.

Responsive Design Improvements

It has never been easier to create a mobile-friendly site now that Magento's responsive design reference theme includes all core Magento features, including gift registries, downloadable products, multiple wish lists, add-to-cart by SKU, and private sales.

It even boasts responsive default email templates so customers can read your order confirmation emails and newsletters on any device.

Technology Updates

Magento Enterprise Edition boosts performance and security by adding support for MySQL 5.6 and PHP 5.5.

With MySQL 5.6, you benefit from improved site speed and scalability, reduced memory usage on the database server, and enhanced debugging tools.

PHP 5.5 provides security improvements and ensures you have continued access to code updates. And, for those of you who haven't already upgraded from PHP 5.3, there are potential performance improvements—up to 25% based on reports from some customers.

Magento Enterprise Edition 1.14.1 has been updated to support Universal Analytics, the new standard for Google Analytics. With this update, merchants can define more custom dimensions and metrics for tracking, incorporate offline and mobile app interactions, and gain access to ongoing feature updates that will only be available on Universal Analytics.

Magento EE System Reports (EE only)

Magento EE only. Now administrators can generate a detailed report about your installation to help support teams more easily diagnose and resolve issues.

Multi-Administrator Support

This release significantly improves backend scalability and eases administrative tasks by enabling many administrators to make product updates at the same time—without causing deadlocks or critical data errors.

This support for larger teams gives merchants power like never before to achieve their aggressive goals.

If you're using an EE version earlier than 1.14.1, this feature is available in a patch as discussed in Recent Patches.

Other Improvements

Magento Enterprise Edition 1.14.1 includes updates to promotions, product import/export capabilities, security, and other features as part of our commitment to continually improve product quality.

Solution for Magento Mobile Issue

XmlConnect is disabled by default and, as a result, users who attempt to view your mobile storefront might see the error The server responded with invalid data.

To resolve this issue:

Log in to your Magento server as a user with root privileges.

Open the following file in a text editor:

[your Magento install dir]app/etc/modules/Mage_XmlConnect.xml

For example,

vim /var/www/html/magento/app/etc/modules/Mage_XmlConnect.xml

Change this:

<active>false<active/>

to this:

<active>true<active/>

Save your changes to Mage_XmlConnect.xml and exit the text editor.

Clear the Magento cache:

Log in to the Magento Admin Panel as an administrator.

Click System > Cache Management.

Click Flush Magento Cache.

You can log out of the Admin Panel.

Patches for EE 1.14.0.1 and EE 1.14.1.0

Magento has recently released patches for the following:

Magento backup and restore now work without errors if you use PHP 5.5 in Magento EE 1.14.1.0 and EE 1.14.0.1.
The name of this patch for EE 1.14.1.0 is PATCH_SUPEE-4776_EE_1.14.1.0_v1-2014-11-21-08-34-53.sh
The name of this patch for EE 1.14.0.1 is PATCH_SUPEE-4776_EE_1.14.0.1_v1-2014-11-21-08-45-52.sh

Configurable swatch images in search results no longer enlarge when you click them.
The name of this patch is PATCH_SUPEE-4829_EE_1.14.1.0_v1-2014-11-21-08-36-31.sh

Localized swatch image fallback works properly.
The name of this patch is PATCH_SUPEE-4830_EE_1.14.1.0_v1-2014-11-21-08-37-37.sh

Enables the following locales to be selected for a store: German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese.
The name of this patch is PATCH_SUPEE-4859_EE_1.14.1.0_v1-2014-11-21-08-39-01.sh.

Translations for German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.
The name of this patch is translations-1-14-1-0-2014-11-26-11-01-39.zip.

Customer passwords are no longer stored in clear text during registration.

Storefront users no longer see each others' user names in certain circumstances.

To change an administrator password using the Admin Panel, you must first enter your existing password.

Added a secure cookie flag for the storefront to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. Configuration options haven't changed; they are still under System > Configuration > GENERAL > Web, option groups Secure and Unsecure.

Changes

Shortcut on Shopping Cart renamed to Display on Shopping Cart and moved from Basic to Advanced.

The recommended Display on Shopping Cart option is now worded Yes (PayPal recommends this option).

It's more important than ever for you to configure a Magento cron job. In addition to indexing and other core functions, all Magento e-mails (including order confirmation and transactional) are now queued and sent according to your configured cron schedule.Important: You must configure cron to run as the web server user; otherwise, you will experience issues, such as not being able to reindex from the Magento Admin Panel. Consult the preceding Knowledge Base article for more information.

The Update on Save reindexing option works without performance issues when multiple Magento administrators are updating products at the same time.

The PayPal Bill Me Later logo and name has been replaced by PayPal Credit.

Bill Me Later options now display only in U.S. stores.

The Zend Framework version has been updated to 1.12.7.

Check out with PayPal and PayPal Credit buttons now display on product pages for gift cards and dynamic bundled products.

Updated PayPal buttons for US-based stores.

Orders with PayPal viewed on the Admin Panel have a link that enables a Magento administrator to view the order on the PayPal site.

You can use full page caching with the HTTPS protocol. You don't need to use SSL offloading (also referred to as SSL acceleration) to take advantage of this change.
Magento thanks Florinel Chis of Elastera for contributing to this fix.

The PayPal Standard API has been replaced with the newer PayPal Express Checkout API.

Indexing Fixes

The Update on Save option works properly (reindexing is not required).

Removed the false message One or more of the Indexes are not up to date following a change to product attributes.

General Magento Connect Fixes

When you install a community-created translation package, the translation provided by the package overwrites any existing translations for the same items. This enables you to more easily install packages with translations.

To improve security, Magento Connect now uses HTTPS by default to download extensions, rather than FTP.

Extension developers can now create an extensions with a dash character in the name. Merchants can install those extensions without issues.

Magento administrators who attempt to install an extension with insufficient file system privileges are now informed. Typically, the Magento Admin Panel runs as the web server user. If this user has insufficient privileges to the your Magento install dir/app/code/community directory structure, the Magento administrator sees an error message in the Magento Connect Manager.
To set file system permissions appropriately, see After You Install Magento: Recommended File System Ownership and Privileges.

Other Fixes

Resolved a caching-related issue that caused the storefront to be unresponsive.

Gift cards are no longer issued if the payment method fails.

If a price rule is applicable to more than one item in the cart, all eligible items get the discount.

A discount is applied to all members of an eligible customer group.

Magento correctly calculates the Daylight Savings Time offset.

Resolved the following issues with URL rewrites in the form product/{product_id}:

You can now create more than one such rewrite per store, per product.

The canonical URL in search results is the actual URL, not the rewrite URL.
Magento thanks Colin Mollenhour for contributing to this fix.

Resolved the following issues with the wish list:

You can now add multiple items to your wish list.

You can now share the wish list.

Resolved the following issues with the CMS widgets Catalog Category Link and Catalog Product Link:

Links on the storefront work after upgrading Magento.

Catalog Category links to subcategories no longer result in an HTTP 404 (Not Found).

Improved calculation performance on configurable products with thousands of attributes.

With full page caching enabled, switching between any HTML5 viewport works properly. (For example, switching from a mobile device to a desktop device displays the desktop theme.)

Shopping cart price rules apply properly for bundled products.

With full page caching enabled, cross-border taxes display properly.

Category search works properly when category permissions are enabled.

Magento EE 1.14.0.1 Release Notes

EE 1.14.0.1 resolves the following issues:

Customers can no longer apply a coupon from an inactive shopping cart price rule to a purchase.

Customers using a smartphone or other small viewport can expand subcategories in the web store that uses the new responsive theme.

Recent Patches

Note: The patches discussed in this section are built in to EE 1.14.1; you need to get them only if you're running an earlier EE version.

We'd like to draw your attention to several new patches that were recently posted to the Partner Portal and Support Center. These patches deliver important improvements, such as enabling several concurrent administrators to work with the product catalog, and to make it easier to install community-created translation packages.

General Magento Connect Patches

Patch name: PATCH_SUPEE-3941_EE_1.14.0.1_v1-2014-08-12-12-10-06.sh

When you install a community-created translation package, the translation provided by the package overwrites any existing translations for the same items. This enables you to more easily install packages with translations.

To improve security, Magento Connect now uses HTTPS by default to download extensions, rather than FTP.

Extension developers can now create an extensions with a dash character in the name. Merchants can install those extensions without issues.

Magento administrators who attempt to install an extension with insufficient file system privileges are now informed. Typically, the Magento Admin Panel runs as the web server user. If this user has insufficient privileges to the your Magento install dir/app/code/community directory structure, the Magento administrator sees an error message in the Magento Connect Manager.
To set file system permissions appropriately, see After You Install Magento: Recommended File System Ownership and Privileges.

Multiple Simultaneous Magento Administrators

Patch name: PATCH_SUPEE-3819_EE_1.14.0.1_v1.sh. Multiple Magento administrators can simultaneously add new products; or edit descriptions, edit prices, or edit stock quantities of existing products without causing deadlocks, key violations, or critical data errors. Together with applying the patch, you must set all indexers to Update when scheduled as follows:

Log in to the Magento Admin Panel as an administrator.

Click System > Configuration.

In the left navigation bar, from the ADVANCED group, click Index Management.

Expand Indexing Options.

From each list, click Update when scheduled.

Click Save Config in the upper right corner of the page.

How to Get Patches For Magento EE

This section discusses how to get patches referenced in these Release Notes. Magento has other patches available from the EE support portal and the partner portal; you can use the following instructions to install any of those patches as well.

You can get a tablet and smart phone friendly responsive site in about half the time as before, speeding time to market and freeing up resources for other projects.

Your responsive site makes you better able to participate in the fast growing mobile commerce space, gives you the ability to more easily adapt to new opportunities, and is less expensive to maintain. A responsive site also offers potential search engine optimization (SEO) benefits because it uses Google's preferred approach to mobile-optimizing sites.

Magento EE 1.14 now supports Solr versions up to 3.6.2 natively (that is, without a patch). Catalog indexing happens efficiently and automatically in the background, with no manual intervention required, resulting in better administrative performance.
For more information about using Solr with Magento EE, see How to Use the Solr Search Engine With Magento Enterprise Edition.Note: If you're using the Solr search engine with EE versions 1.13.1 or earlier, you must perform an additional step during upgrade due to the fact that the Solr schema changes in EE 1.14. You must copy two files to your Solr server—schema.xml and solrconfig.xml. For details, see the section on upgrading Solr in the Magento upgrade guide.

Cross-border trade: (Also referred to as pricing consistency.) We support European Union (EU) merchants operating across regions and geographies who want to show their customers a single price. Pricing is clean and uncluttered regardless of tax structures and rates that vary from country to country.
To enable cross-border trade in the Admin Panel, click System > Configuration > SALES > Tax > Calculation Settings, option Enable Cross Border Trade.

Security Enhancements

Addressed a potential security issue that could result in displaying information about a different order to a customer.

Users can no longer change the currency if the payment method PayPal Website Payments Standard is used.

Removed an .swf file from the Magento distribution because of security issues.

Improved file system security.

Enhanced the security of action URLs, such as billing agreements.

Addressed a potential session fixation vulnerability during checkout.

Improved the security of the Magento randomness function.

Changes

A default setting for configurable and bundled products has changed. When you create a configurable or bundled product in the Admin Panel, click Manage > Products. Create a new configurable or bundled product and click the Design tab. The default option for Display Product Options In has changed to Product Info Column.

The Google Websites Optimizer has been disabled because it has been deprecated by Google. (In earlier EE versions, this option was available in the Admin Panel at System > Configuration > SALES > Google API > Google Website Optimizer).

Two new options to prevent "clickjacking" if you run Magento in a frame or iframe:

Enable frames only in the same domain.

Enable frames.

Important: For security reasons, Magento strongly recommends against running the Magento software in a frame.

The options are available in the Admin Panel at System > Configuration > ADVANCED > Admin > Security and are named Allow Magento Backend to run in frame and Allow Magento Frontend to run in frame.

Because of these changes, Magento cannot retrieve shipping rate information or print shipping labels for FedEx unless this fix is applied.

EE 1.14 includes a fix that prevented some Discover credit cards from validating properly. The issue was that certain Discover credit card number ranges were not recognized as being valid. As a result of the fix, all Discover cards should validate properly.

Important: This is not a security threat. No data has been compromised or misused. It affects only the ability to validate certain credit card number ranges as valid Discover card numbers.

If you use the Solr search engine, you no longer need to manually reindex the Catalog Search Index (except after you upgrade to EE 1.14 from an earlier version).

The default values for two configuration options changed. Both options can be found in the Admin Panel under System > Configuration > CATALOG > Catalog > Frontend. The new default values follow:

Products per Page on Grid Allowed Values is now 12, 24, 36.

Products per Page on Grid Default Value is now 12.

On the New Rule page for shopping cart price rules (Rule Information tab page), explanatory text Usage limit enforced for logged in customers only was added to the Uses per customer field. This is to avoid confusion encountered by some Magento merchants.

Changes to PayPal Express checkout:

Changes to both Proceed to Checkout and to Pay With PayPal:

Customers cannot edit their billing address on the PayPal site—in fact, the billing address does not display on the PayPal site.

Magento EE uses the customer's PayPal address information, not the address information stored in Magento EE. The customer does not need to enter Magento CE or EE address information.

When the customer is redirected to the PayPal site, they can click Change next to their payment method to change it.

The Magento administrator can set billing address information in the Admin Panel as follows: System > Configuration > SALES > Payment Methods. For any payment method that includes Express Checkout, in Basic Settings, set the value of the Require Customer's Billing Address list.

Changes to Pay With PayPal only:

If the Magento administrator does not require the customer's billing address, the customer's billing address is set to the customer's PayPal shipping address.

If the Magento requires the customer's billing address, the customer's billing address is set to the customer's PayPal billing address.

On the PayPal site, the customer can click Change next to their shipping address to change it. The customer can choose any shipping address configured with PayPal.

Because the customer's configured address in Magento is not used, the customer's shipping address stored in PayPal is never changed.

Changes to Proceed to Checkout only:

No Change link displays next to a customer's shipping address on the PayPal site.

In the event of a shipping address mismatch between Magento and PayPal, the following message displays when the customer attempts to pay using PayPal:

The address you entered on store-name is different than your PayPal preferred shipping address.
Return to store-name if you'd like to change the shipping address

The user can select the Use as preferred shipping address check box to instruct PayPal to change their shipping address.

Tax Calculation Fixes

Fixed price and dynamic price bundled products where the price is configured to include tax display prices correctly regardless of tax settings. (For example, customer's default tax rate is different from the origin tax rate.)

Resolved a one-cent rounding issue when Fixed Product Tax (FPT) is enabled and the option Apply Discount to FPT is set to Yes. (These options are available in the Admin Panel by going to System > Configuration > SALES > Tax > Fixed Product Taxes.)

Resolved issues with calculating the credit memo amount when FPT is discounted and the customer purchases more than one item.

Web Store and Shopping Cart Fixes

With full page caching enabled:

Customers can no longer see each other's wish list or previously viewed products.

Related products set to not rotate display on the web store. (In other words, an administrator set System > Configuration > CATALOG > Catalog > Rule-Based Product Relations, option Rotation Mode for Products in Related Product List set to Do not rotate.)

The product ratings block refreshes on the storefront after a new rating has been approved.

Tier pricing is calculated properly.

Resolved a 404 (Not Found) error navigating from a product in one category to an upsell product in a different category.

A customer can update quantities of items in their mini shopping cart from their My Account page.

The Minimum Advertised Price pop-up works properly in the web store. When the customer clicks Click for price, the price displays as expected.

The "customer since" date is correct.

Switching stores when viewing a product with store-scoped URL keys works as expected.

Setting System > Configuration > CATALOG > Inventory, option Display Out of Stock Products to Yes no longer causes all products to appear as out of stock.

Entering accented characters in the zip code field during checkout results in a validation error instead of an exception message.

Gift card codes are sent only after an item is purchased.

A customer who attempts to log in as another customer with incorrect credentials is denied.

Resolved issues with applying a 100% discount to an order.

Customers are no longer redirected to the home page when they have permission to view a category.

Promotional Price Rule Fixes

The following fixes relate to administering and using shopping cart price rules and catalog price rules:

Shopping cart price rules apply properly to grouped products.

Two catalog price rules applied to the same product work properly.

The setting Stop Further Rules Processing is honored.

A user with read-only privileges in the Admin Panel cannot save changes to a price rule.

Applying a shopping cart price rule does not display an exception.

Coupon codes apply only to products eligible for the price rule.

Administrative Ordering, Invoicing, Credit Memo Fixes

An administrative user with access to only one website from which a product was deleted no longer sees a stack trace when attempting to create an RMA for that product. In other words, after a customer placed an order for a product on Website1, an administrator with privileges to all websites removes the product. Later, when an administrator with access to only Website1 attempts to create an RMA for the deleted product, that administrator no longer sees an error message; instead, they see an expected Access Denied message.

Resolved an issue with incorrectly calculating the amount of an invoice when some items were discounted by a shopping cart price rule.

Credit memo amount is calculated correctly when processing a partial invoice with a discount.

Resolved an issue where search results don't display correctly after a Magento upgrade.

Catalog navigation works properly.

Products display as expected in categories if the products have a Date attribute with the option Used for Sorting in Product Listing set to Yes. There are no exceptions in Magento logs after reindexing.

Corrected the sort order of products searched by SKU.

Search results of products with names and/or SKUs that contains numbers, letters, and a hyphen character (-) are as expected.

Resolved issues with search results for products in a locale other than en_US with numeric SKUs.

Resolved issues with Solr not returning product search results.

Search results no longer include products that are either Disabled or Out of Stock.

Other Fixes

Restored images on a customer's Reward Points page.

Categories on the storefront now display with spaces between category names for cached and non-cached pages.

A customer can now initiate a return from the storefront.

An administrative user can subscribe to low stock RSS feeds without errors.

Category URLs work as expected, regardless of the setting of Create Custom Redirect for old URL for the category's URL key.

Setting allow_url_fopen = Off in php.ini has no effect on the CMS WYSIWYG editor.

No fatal error displays when a role-restricted user previews a newsletter in the Admin Panel.

Google Sitemap files now include the .html suffix for category and product URLs.

Customers can use advanced search on your storefront if Magento EE is configured to use the default MySQL Fulltext search engine and the server uses MySQL 5.6.

A role-restricted user can preview a newsletter in the Admin Panel to which the user has privileges.

After synchronizing media files with the database, media/customer/.htaccess is present with the correct data. (Prerequisite: an administrator set System > Configuration > ADVANCED > System > Storage Configuration for Media set to Database).

cron now restarts indexers if they previously failed to run.

You can save changes to a category that has more than 1,000 products.

Deactivating one of several banners no longer causes exceptions in system.log.

Resolved issues with the WSDL cache.

Improved the efficiency of product searches.

Resolved issues with the full page cache crawler.

Resolved issues with the DHL International shipping method.

Resolved 404 (Not Found) errors in layered navigation.

Resolved a SQL error when attempting to assign a bundled product to another website.

Rules-based product relations perform as expected after being saved.

Resolved an issue with sending duplicate Content-Type headers when using mod_fastcgi with the Apache web server.

Open Source Software Licensing Agreements

Some versions of Magento EE use open source software licensing. Following are license agreements for that software.

Touch punch: This code is dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses and is therefore free to use, modify and/or distribute, but if you include Touch Punch in other software packages or plugins, please include an attribution to the original software and a link to this Touch Punch website.